Shan Reddy
Person
Shan Reddy is the co-founder and CEO of Aristotle, an education technology company building AI designed to teach. He previously worked with Stanford's Symbolic Systems program and Cometeer.
What Shan Reddy has said on podcasts
8 statements
General AI systems are worsening rather than improving at teaching.
“AI is actually not getting better at teaching. It's actually getting worse.”
Open the episode · Jason Mentors The Next Generation + Why AI Is Bad at Teaching (Aristotle Interview) | E2346Listen at 45:53
General AI models are improving at complex reasoning, enterprise tasks, and coding.
“the models are getting better at long horizon complex reasoning, enterprise question answering, enterprise problem solving, coding, and so on.”
Open the episode · Jason Mentors The Next Generation + Why AI Is Bad at Teaching (Aristotle Interview) | E2346Listen at 46:14
Effective AI teaching should preserve students’ productive struggle and cognitive effort.
“when it comes to teaching, what we are trying to do is make sure that the student has the productive struggle”
Open the episode · Jason Mentors The Next Generation + Why AI Is Bad at Teaching (Aristotle Interview) | E2346Listen at 47:15
Language models currently struggle with adaptive nonverbal teaching actions.
“these are all things that are difficult for language models to do right now”
Open the episode · Jason Mentors The Next Generation + Why AI Is Bad at Teaching (Aristotle Interview) | E2346Listen at 52:29
One-on-one voice tutoring produces the best learning outcomes.
“one-on-one tutoring via voice, as human student tutors have done for so long, is the best way to learn, drives the best outcomes.”
Open the episode · Jason Mentors The Next Generation + Why AI Is Bad at Teaching (Aristotle Interview) | E2346Listen at 54:05
Aristotle claims no other company is developing a frontier tutoring model or harness.
“no one is working on a tutoring model. No one is really working on a frontier tutoring harness outside of Aristotle.”
Open the episode · Jason Mentors The Next Generation + Why AI Is Bad at Teaching (Aristotle Interview) | E2346Listen at 59:36
Public education quality is poor in most regions and deteriorating.
“the product that the public sector is putting out there is not great in most geographies and is getting worse.”
Open the episode · Jason Mentors The Next Generation + Why AI Is Bad at Teaching (Aristotle Interview) | E2346Listen at 1:06:42
AI will solve curriculum delivery through personalized instruction.
“learning and teaching in terms of curricula is solved. AI delivers it and it delivers it magically and personally attuned to every student.”
Open the episode · Jason Mentors The Next Generation + Why AI Is Bad at Teaching (Aristotle Interview) | E2346Listen at 1:07:13
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